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Leeds office workers have raised more than £16,000 to help children with life-limiting illnesses. The city office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) raked in the money for Martin House Children’s Hospice at Boston Spa. It will be spent on providing music therapy for youngsters and their families.
With banks of keyboards, headphones, computers and editing equipment, Judy Abrams’ music classroom at Leonard J. Tyl Middle School looks more like a recording studio. It happens to be both — and more.
Amanda Hunter, 11, is a typical middle-schooler, sporting a Jonas Brothers backpack and gushing over the group. But for Amanda, music holds more meaning than a simple boy-band crush. “Music helps me with multiplication,” the wheelchair-bound Amanda said with a proud smile. “Music is awesome. I learn a lot from it.”
In a windowless room of the University Center for the Arts Tuesday sat patients of a group meeting to undergo a less common form of physical therapy. Everyone in the group shared a common trait; they all have Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs motor skills, speech and other functions of the brain.
As a concert violinist and Newton Symphony Orchestra conductor, James Orent knows how music can lift an audience’s spirits. But while watching too many friends and family members battle life-threatening diseases, he came to wonder about another possible impact: music’s power to heal.
In our everyday lives language and instrumental music are obviously different things. Neuroscientist and musician Ani Patel is the author of a recent, elegantly argued offering from Oxford University Press, Music, Language and the Brain. Oliver Sacks calls Patel a "pioneer in the use of new concepts and technology...
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